The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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The whole world is one neighborhood.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.
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Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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